LABOUR PARTY’S POLICY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 3

LABOUR PARTY’S POLICY

MR SKINNER SPEAKS AT AUCKLAND

FIRST OF SERIES OF MEETINGS , (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 20. “I know that when we were the Government mistakes were made, and I have no doubt that when we become the Government again, as we will, we may make more mistakes, but we will never swerve from the policies and principles which brought Labour to power in 1935, and with which no fault can be found,” said the Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Mr C. F. Skinner), speaking at Remuera tonight in the first of a series of meetings in the Auckland area.

“We are supposed to be a Socialist party. All I can say is that we have made a pretty good job of socialising the National Party,” said Mr Skinner. ‘‘But do you think we have accomplished that change of heart, or is it just political expediency? The present Government is administering policies that it has always been against. The National Government has put it across the people of New Zealand right-from the start.

‘‘You heard a lot of howling when the present Government was in opposition about the Labour policy of using the Reserve Bank to provide finance,” he said. “The Labour policy was condemned, bell, book, and candle. I am not criticising the present Government for also using the Reserve Bank, but they are using it when the revenue from exports is millions of pounds higher than ever before. Mr Algie used to call it ‘funny money.’ but I see that the houses that were built with funny money are being sold for good solid cash today.”